+{{Pictures/vacation/japan_2009/From_Alberto/Paris/00216.jpg|The Louvre gallery as seen from the Seine|maxwidth=640|class=thumbright}}
+
+Our flight from Narita arrived at Charles de Gaulle at 4AM, and the connecting
+flight to Florence was at 1PM. Could we spend all this time sitting in the terminal?
+
+No way! My camera's battery was gone, but my father took some photos of [[Pictures/vacation/japan_2009/From_Alberto/Paris]].
+
+For the first time in my life, I had a really bad impression of Paris. Coming from Tokyo,
+any place would seem very dirty, but in this case the garbage was real, abundant,
+and smelled intensely of alcohol, urine and vomit. Perhaps April 30th was a special "drunk men day"?